Losing Her Mind
By Laura Dee Battle
July 16, 2013
(revised July 11, 2015)
There’s no clarity when she’s feeling this way
Blinded by the crippling fear in every yesterday
Crying as endless missteps repeat in her mind
Remembering the missing sun behind her closed window blinds
Pacing back and forth; her insanity runs free
She secured the rusted lock but her mind had the key
The door is shaking now as the ringing grows loud
Tear-spattered walls lined with floods from her clouds
Her TV set is on but static is all it ever shows
Suddenly she sees what everyone already knows
Long ago she lost the beauty in her brittle life
She reaches in her dresser drawer to find salvation in a knife
Remembering the days when angels used to sing
She numbly basks in hopelessness under the stucco ceiling
Her eyes are filled with broken dreams; she doesn’t wipe ‘em clean
It’s too late to save her now, with everything she’s seen
The flood fills up the room while she dies without a sound
Her bed becomes the refuge from all the pain she’s found
She stands on the sheets and screams out her final plea
"I'LL NEVER LEAVE AGAIN DEE JUST STAY HERE WITH ME!"
She opens up her flooded eyes to every dream she never knew
The blinds are still closed with the sunshine peaking through
So she opens her crippled heart to the troubled world unseen
The clouds maybe are heavy with the floods that they will bring
The moment finally comes to take up arms and fight
Readily she meets the shadows in the broken night
So she ventures out the room with nothing but love on her arms
And sounds her demons battle cry with a smile to disarm
Copyright © Laura Dee | Year Posted 2013
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